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Ancient Greek Religion
Hellenism; Olympian religion
c.1600 BCE – c.500 CE · Classical Mediterranean · Revived / Reconstructed · Greece, Aegean, Anatolia, Magna Graecia
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1600–1100 BCE Mycenaean religion; Linear B tablets already name Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Dionysus and Athena.
- c.800–700 BCE Homer and Hesiod. Herodotus later says these two gave the Greeks their gods' genealogies, forms and functions.
- 776 BCE Traditional first Olympiad.
- c.600 BCE Eleusinian Mysteries absorbed into the Athenian state calendar.
- 399 BCE Socrates executed on charges including impiety and introducing new gods.
- 415 BCE The mutilation of the herms and the profanation of the Mysteries — a religious scandal that helps wreck the Sicilian expedition.
- c.300 BCE Philosophical schools (Stoic, Epicurean) increasingly displace civic religion among the educated.
- 393 CE Theodosius I abolishes the Olympic Games and bans public pagan sacrifice.
- 529 CE Justinian closes the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens — a symbolic terminus, though the school's activity had already dwindled.
- 2017 CE Greece grants Hellenism legal recognition as a known religion.
### Sources
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